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It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.
James Russell Lowell
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James Russell Lowell
Age: 72 †
Born: 1819
Born: February 22
Died: 1891
Died: August 12
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Our seasons have no fixed returns, Without our will they come and go At noon our sudden summer burns, Ere sunset all is snow.
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Count me o'er earth's chosen heroes, - they were souls that stood alone, While the men they agonized for hurled the contumelious stone, Stood serene, and down the future saw the golden beam incline To the side of perfect justice, mastered by their faith divine, By one man's plain truth to manhood and to God's supreme design.
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Not but wut abstract war is horrid, I sign to thet with all my heart, But civilysation doos git forrid Sometimes, upon a powder-cart.
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Certainly it is no shame to a man that he should be as nice about his country as his sweetheart, yet it would not be wise to hold everyone an enemy who could not see her with our own enchanted eyes.
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Here come the hum the golden bees Underneath full blossomed trees, At once with glowing fruit and flowers crowned.
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The ultimate result of protecting fools from their folly is to fill the planet full of fools.
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O visionary world, condition strange, Where naught abiding is but only change.
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That cause is strong which has, not a multitude, but one strong man behind it.
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And but two ways are offered to our will, Toil with rare triumph, ease with safe disgrace, The problem still for us and all of human race.
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Christ was the first true democrat that ever breathed, as the old dramatist Dekkar said he was the first true gentleman.
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You've gut to git up airly Ef you want to take in God.
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There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds.
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The ash her purple drops forgivingly And sadly, breaking not the general hush The maple swamps glow like a sunset sea, Each leaf a ripple with its separate flush All round the wood's edge creeps the skirting blaze, Ere the rain falls, the cautious farmer burns his brush.
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What men call luck Is the prerogative of valiant souls, The fealty life pays its rightful kings.
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Truth is quite beyond the reach of satire. There is so brave a simplicity in her that she can no more be made ridiculous than an oak or a pine.
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How little inventiveness there is in man, Grave copier of copies.
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One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
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No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.
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All thoughts that mold the age begin deep down within the primitive soul.
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A great part of human suffering has its root in the nature of man, and not in that of his institutions.
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